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JOHN n' DIBBLE, or BROOKLYN,A sew YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming par: f Letzer-s lemma-zeersacead-mswes-r i l .Taa'll when it may ooncern: defense possible, and aflois the playersad- 1t known that. I, JOHX L. DIBRLE, a citiditional opportunity for the exercise of their zen of the United States, residingat Brooklyn',y skill. One advantage of the arrangement of inthe conntyof Kings and Sta-te. of Kew York, the playing-spaces may be here shown. (See 55 5 have invented a new and useful Improvement- Fig. l.) c aud d represent two checkerone in Game Boards or Tables for use Vin Playing of each ofthe players, in thepositionas shown; the Garne of Checkers, oi' which the following the two pieces mutually hold each other in is a specification. check, it bein: impossible for` either to be 1e object of my invention is to provide a moved without its risking capture by its op- 6o :o game board or table upon which the wellponents next more. With the board asor the boa being ntilized for the purposes of lege of the plarers moving the checkers di- 7o 2othegarne,insteadofusingoulyalternatespaees, rectly' forward toward their opponents side as 1s usual in the game of checkers. and confining the play to mores in a. diagonal e checker-board in common use has usudirection the frame may he played substanlysixty-four square pluyiugspaces-arranged tially in accordance with the customary rules. in a quadrangnlargroup, the sides of the play- I do not tix arbitrarily the number ofplay- 75 25 iug-spaces being parallel with the sides ofthe ing-spaces or the number of checkers to be group. used. The number of spaces or-the number of My improvement consists in arranging the checkers may be increased ordiminished, care playing-spaces-in a quadrangular group,with being taken that the number of checkers be the dia"OpgLdhtmetersQt`1he`pLayirgpzig so proportioned to the total number of play- 8o. 3o pumllei tothedgsptlthegmup. iugfspuces that when they are placed in pt igure 1 represents a pluu of the improved I tion on opposite sides of the board there be rd or table. Fig. 2 represents a. moditication of the sume. tween the two groups to permit of opening e game is to be played with a suitable moves :it the beginning of the game. 8 35 number of checkersof the usual well-known In arranging the spaces ina quadranguiar form. Referring toFig. 1, the checkers ottone group it is not necessary that :he group be in player are tobe armnged on the three rows of the form of a square. Fi". 2 shows a mrd' 4o ranged ou the three rows of spaces nearest the upon with asetOfwty-cight checkers, twenryopposite side. The players, playing alter` I four being;r assigned to each player, one player nately, are privileged to move one checker one occupying with his checkers the three rows of space, either directly or ohliquely forward. l spaces ou one ofthe longer-sidesofthe toward the opposite side, it being underand the other player occupyirgthethreeros 95 45 stood that when a player captures one orrnore i of spaces on the opposite side of the board. of his opponent's checkers by jumpingf` I consider this form of the omrd most :dg as is customaryin the game, the jumpinr vant` f*cous when :1 large number of checkers move must be made gn au oblique direction or l are used, for if the spaces be arranged in an directions. This privilege ot moving the equilatex-al'groupthe checkers must either be xoo 5o checkers either directly or obl iquely forward massed together in such manner that many of makes many new combinationsof attack and them cannot be used until the game isrell advanced. or theunoecnpied space between but I eonsider the arrangement; resulting in the players will be so grt. as to make the the two doublespaeed eornersQasiu Fig. l, f opening of the game tedious. preferable, inasmuch as both the double and l45 I attach especial importance to the form single corners may be used to advantage in 5 shown in Pig. 1, consisting of fifty playingplaying the game, as will be well understood Spaces arranged in rows of tive spaces :far-h, by those skilled 1n the art. and as the three rows nearest to either of the -Simila` results to those obtained by this insidesof the l oardu1wn which would be plated vention may also be obtained hy a. board hav- 5o the checkers of one of the players at the open- 'iuga group of hexagonal playing-spaces. Such 1o ing of the game contain fifteen playing-armes, aboard- I have described in my application for .v

upon with :l set of thirty checkers-fifteen to boards ,and appurtenances thereto, filed ich player. The common sets of checkersin March 7, 1833; but the board herein described 55 genera-l use. and which are extensively sold in I regard as an improvement npoil that inven- 15 sets of thi-T5- pieec-. (fifteen of each of'two tion, inasmuch'a` when it is desirable to make contrasting (-olors.) are therefore adapted for the playingspacesof di`erentcolored woods use upon the hoard in this form: and, further', inlaid or glued uponits surface, or by attachas the common form of checkenboard hrm ing pie-ees of direrentlyeolored leather, the 6o sixty-fourpnyingspas,theeeonomyfsgcee simpler form of the spaces permits themate` 2o in the arrangement of the spaces, as herein rial to be cntto better advantage, and. the

described, is apparent.' board may be produced at las oost.

It will be seen in Fig. 1 that in cach of the Having fully described my invention, what; corners a and b there are two playinmspaoes, I desire ro claim and seeurehy Letters Patent 65 and thatincac-h of the other corners there is is- 25 but one plsrlngspaceand in Pig. 2 it will be 1. A checker-board having a. quadrangular Seen that there is but a single playing-Space group of adjoining' quadmngular playing` in each of 72e four corners. Ou further mruspare-s arranged wixh'ther diagonal diameters parison of the two rig-ares, it will be seen that parallel tothe Sidesof the group, substantially '7o .A in Fig. 1 there is au eren number of spams, as-desn-ibed. 3o and that in Pig. 2 there is an oddnnmber of l .X checker or game board havinga' quadspaces. Thenever an odd number of spaces mngular group of tiyadjoiuiug quadranguis chosen for the board, and theyare arranged lar playing-spaces armnged with their diagin a 1und1-.angular group, there will be but a onal diameters parallel to the sides of the 75 single playing-spate in each of the four corgroup and in suc-h manner that there be two 35 ners of snc-h group. TVhenevex-'an even numplayr`ng-spaces in two of the Corners 'of the ber ofspacf-s is chosen for theblrdnd theyA group, and but asugle playing-space in the are arranged in a quadrangzar groiupl,1 there remaining two comers of the group. will be two playing-gates in two o t e eorners of the group and but a single playirn:` JOB-. L' DIBBLE' 4o space in the other two corners; or there will 'Witufssesz be two pla wing-spaces in each ofthe four eor- C. H. P iTrEoN,

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